Standard tuning
Key Am / C (E major instead of minor)
/v>Am E F C E (1st verse ends on the C)
/ch>Am E
Am E
Plant your roots and spread your seed
Am E
Fill the world with love not greed
F C
What a strange reflection across your face and in your eyes
F C
What a strange thought that you can deliver with surprise
Am
There be monkeys in the corner
E
Keep a chimney burning for ya
(hang on E)
Am E
Fill me with your musical spirit
F
Let me hear it from the soul
C
Turn into a song that can touch my heart
E Am
Make me feel like I belong
E
Play me your music play me your sounds
F
Let me know where we can be bound
C
To the sounds of love
E E....Am
That we feel for...ever
Am
There be monkeys in the corner
E
Keep a chimney burning for ya
Am E
Mountain birds sing their song
Am E
Singing in celebration
And in their voice I hear a passion
And it will paralyse me where I stand
Am
There be monkeys in the corner
E
Keep a chimney burning for ya
Am
Play to me with your music
E
Play your music oh so loud
Am
Play to me with your music
E F
I can’t hear any sounds
C
Except the sounds of love
E E (hang) Am E
That we feel for.......ever
Am E
forever
Am
There be monkeys in the corner
E
Keep a chimney burning for ya
(hang on E)
Am
We all have our place now
Round this table we’re sat
E
The fire sets a blaze
in flumes of ash
F
I’ll just sit here singing my songs
C E
So that you can all keep carrying on
Am
Don’t lose spirit, hold for a hope
E
Give in to your body, let it flow
F C
Turn it into a song that can touch my heart
E
Make me feel like I belong
A E
Play me your music play me your sounds
F
Let me know where we can be bound
C
To the sounds of love
E E....Am
That we feel for...ever
Am
There be monkeys in the corner
E
Keep a chimney burning for ya
Am
To be true
There be monkeys in the corner
E
One and all
Keep a chimney burning for ya
To be true